Varnado v. Dille

LEE, Justice,

for the Court:

G. L. Varnado, a Louisiana resident, instituted suit in the Circuit Court of Adams County against Avery B. Dille, Jr. on a judgment entered in his favor by the nineteenth Judicial District Court, East Baton Rouge Parish, State of Louisiana, for the sum of twelve thousand one hundred twenty-four dollars three cents ($12,124.03) with interest and attorney’s fees. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case, the trial judge sustained a motion for directed verdict on the ground that the Louisiana court, which entered the judgment, did not have jurisdiction of the cause on…